World IN BRIEF : ROMANIA : Controls Are Set Up to Halt Baby Trade
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Government officials in Bucharest, Romania, centralized adoption controls to prevent baby-traders--middlemen ranging from taxi drivers to lawyers--from profiting from foreigners who seek
children among Romanian orphans. A Committee for Adoption has begun screening all adoptions by both Romanian and foreign couples, an official said. Previously, adoptions were supervised by
district courts. But the disclosure of the baby-trade abuses in the foreign press prompted the government to set up the new regulatory body.